Unsentimental Sentiment

Check Your Premises

Ayn Rand gave us the injunction: “Check your premises.” Whenever you are running into a contradiction in reality, the most likely problem is that one of your premises is false. If you are a man who views himself as the best husband a woman could find, but she is talking about leaving you, check your premises. Or the idea that insider trading is incompatible with a free market and yet is commonly found among free market investors. Perhaps one of the premises is off.